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The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data

This book, by Jonathan Stray, is about using data in journalism. But it’s not a particularly practical book. Instead it’s for the curious, for those who wonder about the deep ideas that hold everything together. — Tow Center for Digital Journalism

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Table of Contents

  • 0 Introduction
  • 1 Dedication
  • 2 Introduction
  • 3 Quantification
  • 3.1 The Quantities of Everyday Language
  • 3.2 Counting Race
  • 3.3 The Problem of What to Count
  • 3.4 Sampling and Quantified Error
  • 3.5 The Problem of Measurement Error
  • 3.6 Quantification Is Representation
  • 4 Analysis
  • 4.1 Did the Policy Work?
  • 4.2 Accounting for Chance
  • 4.3 Counting Possible Worlds
  • 4.4 Arguing From the Odds
  • 4.5 Statistical Inference
  • 4.6 What Would Have Happened Anyway?
  • 4.7 Causal Models
  • 4.8 Truth by Elimination
  • 5 Communication
  • 5.1 Perception
  • 5.2 Representation
  • 5.3 Examples Trump Statistics
  • 5.4 Who Is in the Data?
  • 5.5 Communicating Uncertainty
  • 5.6 Prediction
  • 6 Going Further
  • 7 Footnotes
  • 8 Citations
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